Robert Redfield: Nursing Homes, Health Care Providers Will First Get the Covid Vaccines By the End of the Year

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REDFIELD: "Yeah, I think it's really important. First, it’s exceptional that we have these vaccines, and it's very exciting. And again, it just reinforces why I want people to be vigilant, because we're turning the corner now, you don’t want to be the last group to end up getting Covid because the vaccine is going to begin to be rolled out probably by the end of the second week of December. Initially in a hierarchical away, nursing home residents and then some combination of health care providers and individuals at high risk for poor outcome. And those decisions are in the process of being finalized as we speak. I do think we will have about 40 million doses of vaccine before the end of the first year, that’s enough to vaccinate 20 million people. But then it will continue through January and February and hopefully by March we will start to see a vaccine available for the general public."